We oro gind to see that Major Holliduy's scheme for a month of serious Volunteer-work has met with the approval of the Corps, For a very long time past, Volunteering has shown signs of languor which everybody with the interest of the Corps ab heart must very much have regretted. The di linguishing characteristic of the Mu un indomitable energy, and th Fittly doubt that any failure to instil that energy into the men under his command is very discouraging to hin. Soldiering hus ita ntteagtions, but the absence of anything like polit excitement, to say nothing of imminent danger, the martial ardour of even the best trained and most willing force will oveutaully, if nob rapidly, cool, We are from wishing that ao drastic a remedy may be applied to counteract the apathy of the Shanghai Volunteers, and we sare that their good sense and healthy esprit de camps will be found quite sufficient to cause a hearty to the append of Major Holiday.
is sume tyelye years ago th something almost like" military law ailed in Shanghai, here had been ible magsncro at Liontsin, and the exciloment was great at every open port. A force mustering six hundred strong paraded every afternoon at the Main Guard, and nothing was heard of bud drills, and watches, and preparations for defence, On more than one ocension the companies were culled out on what threatened to be -netivo service, and guards were stationed at certain posts in and around the Settlement to, give the alarm in the agent of an attack being made, ihe call upon the com. munity was sudden, and nothing could have been mera praixewerth the of their being culled out on active service during the rest of the year they will be in a state of efficiency.
ere ix gond sense in this, and it seems to ave commended itself to the ing ensue vut nw dixsentiont voi The only discussion which took plice with details, and in view. of the warning that "it is no good passing this resolution unless you up your minds to attend," the wax passed noanimously, every t the the 29th fe Hongke uproyemen preci ix only the in point of ra drew atte tion to the very high com; ments paid
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